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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2010
Muralidhar Balcha, Upton, MA (US);
Patrick Jiang, Beijing, CN;
William Huang, Beijing, CN;
Txomin Barturen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Muralidhar Balcha, Upton, MA (US);
Patrick Jiang, Beijing, CN;
William Huang, Beijing, CN;
Txomin Barturen, Issaquah, WA (US);
EMC IP Holding Comapny LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A reclaim system frees previously allocated, but currently unused, storage space in a thin or virtual provisioning environment. The reclaim system may be used in connection with a maintenance operation performed upon determining that significant allocated space of a thin device is no longer being used or may be performed periodically to analyze a thin device and free appropriate space back to a thin device storage pool. In an embodiment, the reclaim system may run online while user applications are accessing a target storage volume.